[Private] Dear Sir You'll recieve with this, a plan, which I presume you'll find advantageous enough to the U. S. & to France, as to urge you to use your influence with the President, the Secretary of the Treasury & any other, towards having it accepted. It's a great point gained having it accepted already by the Ministry here: and I do not know how it can be refused on your side the water. — Notwithstanding I know your influence with both of doubt not of succeeding; a further circumstance I beg leave to mention, i. e. it will replace me more affluently than ever, if it succeed: but which I know will not prevail with you, if the thing itself is not good. — Enclosed I send you the Bankers letter to me, the Commission or Agency in which, I directly engage to pay to you to dispose of, if the thing is effected; and should you be obliged to engage a greater Sum to the necessary persons the Company will replace it. It is just a commission of one p^r Cent, which is smaller than a Bankers for common business, & if you'll at one charge you from your present to a common line, for a time sufficient to effect this, am will merit it well, & it will be paid with pleasure. — Would Dear be of service in this? He might work th— I am totally yours J. Aston P.S. 30. Dec^br to marg: I have endorsed, the enclosed letter from the Bankers to me, so as to give a full right to it: The other I forgot to do so. — Pray sound Mr. Jefferson on this, or get some one to do it. I am afraid of him, merely because Mistort may have misled him. For God's sake get it effected. It is all American work, & all that France desires — & what is necessary to make the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of what is necessary to make the (Turn d. v. ↓) I pray you to write me how you think this will be the soonest you possibly can just. — address it me, N^o 75, Rue [undecipherable] des petits Champs, Paris. — & please acquaint [undecipherable] Jackson of it, for I forgot to tell him in my last of the arrangement.